History Creator / MarkZDanielewski

* CallBack: To his earlier works. For example, "allways" from ''Only Revolutions'' appearing in ''The Fifty Year Sword'' and ''The Familiar'' - with "allways" itself being possibly connected to House of Leaves (hallways.) ''The Familiar'' also refers to HouseOfLeaven by printing instances of the word "House" in blue, as in that earlier book. All in all his works begin to approach a SharedUniverse.

** Pink is an important and recurring color in The Familiar, which has pink on the cover, some words printed in pink, and a protagonist who is really loves the color pink--whenever her clothes or other stuff are described they are pink.
** House of Leaves does it with black, with many references how extremely black everything in the house it, plus having a black cover itself. Also it prints the word "House" always in blue.
* GratuitousForeignLanguage: ''House of Leaves'' has a.o. French, German and Latin - some parts translated, others not. ''The Familiar'' has a few narrators whose native language is not English and sometimes interject their native language (namely, Spanish, Arabic, Turkish, Armenian or Mandarin) in the narrative.

* ColorMotif: Pink is an important and recurring color in The Familiar, which has pink on the cover, some words printed in pink, and a protagonist who is really loves the color pink--whenever her clothes or other stuff are described they are pink.

* BilingualBonus: Sometimes you get translations next to the usage of other languages, but not all the time.
* CallBack: To his earlier works. For example, "allways" from ''Only Revolutions'' appearing in ''The Fifty Year Sword'' and ''The Familiar'' - with "allways" itself being possibly connected to House of Leaves (hallways.) ''The Familiar'' begins to approach a SharedUniverse.

! Tropes commonly used by MZD

Mark Z. Danielewski (born March 5th, 1966) is an author most well-known for ''Literature/HouseOfLeaves''. His works all employ unique and unconventional styles in terms of [[UnconventionalFormatting the formatting of the text itself]], and also are somewhat infamous for [[MindScrew being very confusing a good portion of the time]].

* ''Literature/TheFamiliar'' Season One (Vols. 1-5), originally planned to be a series of ''27'' books released over a long period of time, currently postponed (2015-2018)

* UnreliableNarrator: There are no reliable narrators in an MZD novel, and that's not hyperbole. For one infamous example in ''House of Leaves'', narrator Johnny at a certain point even outright tells the reader that the last few pages were totally made up. ''The Familiar'' at first seems like it's going to avert this with what looks like third-person omniscient narration, but it's soon explained that the narrators are entities called "Narrative Constructs", who quickly prove to be fallible when they begin expressing confusion over the limits of their perception.

* ''Literature/TheFamiliar'', a series of ''27'' books released over a long period of time (2015-????)

* UnconventionalFormatting: The master of it. Colored text, upside-down text, a myriad of fonts, text arranged in the shape of what's going on in the book, raining text, footnote labyrinths...

* CallBack: To his earlier works. For example, "allways" from Only Revolutions appearing in The Fifty Year Sword and The Familiar - with "allways" itself being possibly connected to House of Leaves (hallways.)

%%ZCE * MindScrew: All the time.
* TitleDrop: Taken to extreme in ''House of Leaves'' - as that book ''itself'' appears In Universe and is read by a character.

* UnreliableNarrator: As part of the Mind Screwy nature of his works, you cannot trust anything you read. In ''House of Leaves'', narrator Johnny at a certain point even outright tells the reader he lied to them, and the last few pages were totally made up.

* MindScrew: All the time.
* TitleDrop

* UnreliableNarrator: There are no reliable narrators in an MZD novel.

Mark Z. Danielewski is an author most well-known for ''Literature/HouseOfLeaves''. His works all employ unique and unconventional styles in terms of [[UnconventionalFormatting the formatting of the text itself]], and also are somewhat infamous for [[MindScrew being very confusing a good portion of the time]].